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First up is the game room/hobby area. I have managed to get some unpacking and sorting done. I have also managed to rearrange the furniture. This was so I could get shelves in the primary game area for terrain and give folks a place to put their troops not yet in action on, or recently removed from, the tabletop. I have one more large bookcase to modify and we should be good to go.

An updated pic:

This doesn’t show the office/workshop/overflow game room but that continues apace.

Now to move on to the new project. A club/group in the Phoenix, Arizona area has had a themed tournament over at least the last couple of years that I knowof. Last year the theme was Market Garden. This year the theme is Kursk and Operation Citadel.

They came up with a few alternate lists that looked interesting. Richard over at http://flamesofnerd.blogspot.com/ went with a Stugbatterie. That was tempting to me as well, as I already have a Stug Kompanie ready to go. However, I wanted something different, and, at the suggestion of Firstborn Gaming’s resident alien, Matt, I’m going with a Mittlere Panzer Kompanie from 2nd SS division ‘Das Reich’ with T-34s.

For this army, of course, I didn’t have the main parts, the T-34s, painted up at all. Still don’t. But those are progressing nicely.

These will be a pretty standard build aside from a couple of extra bits of stowage and some schurzen on a couple of tanks. One of the odd things about the German use of T-34s was the addition of these rhomboid stowage boxes.

I have tried to represent these with some think plasticard as you can see in the pics above. I think I nailed the size with the thicker piece. I’ll probably go with a very thin piece for the lid. Next up is to get more of these boxes made and the schurzen done.

So far there are only the mortars, recon platoon, a section of priests and a Jumbo and an Easy Eight(though I need to swap out it’s tracks for good ones.) And, game-wise, I’m not yet convinced about the Jumbo but I do like the model so I will paint it up.

Now that I’m on a new schedule, I have a lot more time to paint. First up are some LRDG I’ve been wanting to get to. An early war tournament at Great Escape Games in Sacramento gave me the perfect excuse to slap paint on them!

Or, at least, the couple of you that stop by on occasion. For those that don’t know, I usually have a number of projects going at any one time. What wargamer doesn’t? These projects are either actually on the table or swimming about inside my head. Recent posts will show a certain panzerpionier company that I have failed to get much progress on in the last year or so. The reasons for that are varied and many.

This post is one of the varied reasons.

Below is a good bit of an American rifle company I have been hard at work on since about July of last year.

I would very much like to show a good picture of the army, but thanks to an exuberant young cat, they have had some damage done to them from a fall. The lions share of the damage is shown here:

As you can see, some damage was considerable. The 90’s in particular were quite hard hit. The recon jeeps didn’t have a good time either, nor did the 105 Shermans since they do not have main gun barrels. Other damages were simple scrapes, bends, and stuff knocked off of bases. In all honesty, most of it is simple to repair, really only needing some paint touch-ups. I simply hate going back over stuff I’ve already done.

Now, getting to the real point of this post, I’m going to use these in a tournament this upcoming weekend. The list I’m going with is here:

The list is from the Panzerkompanie Bake list. I realize this is in contrast to the previous post about taking 5th Wiking. I simply didn’t have the time to paint the models for the list I wanted. Rally didn’t have time to these either as I didn’t get the panzerwerfers finished. Also realized I didn’t have enough German command stands painted up.

The pics are a bit washed out as I haven’t got a proper photo setup yet. On to the pics:

First up is an overall army shot:

Gives a nice overall feel of what the army is about, I think.

Next is the business end of the company in the panther platoon and the CO.

Next up is the other combat platoon of two tigers and the gerbirgsjager platoon.

It was nice having the Gebirgsjager in the army. Good solid infantry support to help hold and take objectives while everybody’s attention is focused on the Panthers and Tigers.

Last up are the Pioneer platoon. My main assault force after the panthers. During the tourney I replaced two stands with flamethrowers. Didn’t get time to finish painting them either.

Pics I don’t have but you see glimpses of, are the Panzerwerfers. I had them painted before the tourney, but wanted to take advantage of the extra crew rule so I set about re-basing to add the crew. Had to raid an 88 blister to do it, so now I need crew for my 88. I can probably get away with some crew from the Arty HQ pack.

Anyway, I did better than I expected in the tourney, placing 4th. This was helped by two 6-1 wins over Soviet Guards tanks . Promptly followed by a 1-6 loss to the Welsh Guards out of Hells Highway. Hoping to get back to a tourney soon to give it another go.